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>The fertility rate (amount of kids per woman) dropped, so no.

Of course it did, since tens of millions men still died and tons were left with severe impairements. It's not about it remaining stable or raising after the most horrible war casualties in history it's about it not dropping as much. It's about it being elevated to where it would be if what we describe wasn't the case.

"The magnitude of the effect on completed fertility is relatively small in light of the scale of male losses, perhaps due to the pronatalist policy that promoted out of wedlock births"

>Nonmarital births does not mean that men were getting multiple different women pregnant at the same time.

Who said anything about "same time"? Men had more choice and thus more affairs/women and reduced being tied to marriage. This translates to more women pregnant by fewer men over the previous period - doesn't mean men got 2-3 women pregnant at a time.

In any case, I think this is more of a "hands on the ears" mode, than a discussion mode, so I'll stop here.




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